[LAU] SSD for audio

[Joe Hartley]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:06:32 +0100
Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:

> If you want to use one: Use it for the current projects you are working on. 
> Leave the operating system on the traditional hdd. You boot your os only once 
> a day. Once ardour is running, the current project is reading many chunks of 
> data from different files in rapid succession. Exactly what the main advantage 
> of ssd is...

This is exactly how I've just upgraded my studio machine.  I replaced 3 IDE HDDs
with a total of ~300GB of storage with 2 SATA drives - a 500GB 2.5" Seagate 
Constellation and an 80GB Intel X25-M drive.

The 500GB drive has 3 bootable partitions so I can muck around with various
Linux distros and versions without messing up my real studio environment, and
a big partition for general storage.  Working sessions are in the /tape partiton
on the 80GB drive.  

I've had three sessions in the studio since the upgrade and it's been working
flawlessly, even though it's just got a 3GHz Pentium 4 as the CPU.

A side note: since these were overdub sessions, I really didn't want to be around
the corner from where the musicians were set up, since I figured that'd hamper 
communications.  X11VNC and my laptop to the rescue!  I displayed the studio's
desktop over to the wireless laptop, and was able to sit right in the performing 
area and control the transport remotely.  Folks were very impressed.

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